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Developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle after losing 20% of my body weight at 53-54 yo, my focus is now on getting leaner and stronger by building just the right amount of muscle mass: vegetarian, struggling with a sweet tooth, amateur indoor rower

Hey everybody, the moment has come to reveal … 🥁 The Weekly Row Recap for Week 17 (August 24-30):This past week, I rowed...
30/08/2026

Hey everybody, the moment has come to reveal … 🥁

The Weekly Row Recap for Week 17 (August 24-30):

This past week, I rowed far enough to have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar more than six times. That represents an almost 14-km (8.5-mile) increase over Week 16’s rowing distance: ⬆️ 18%.

💪 (cue Cake’s “The Distance” 🎶)

I also rowed on average right at the upper end of a California sea lion’s cruising range of 6-8 mph, and this afternoon, I would’ve beat one in an imaginary sea lion race across San Diego Bay to the Coronado Bridge. 🦭

So, yes, dear followers … even after traveling almost 5,000 miles back to France last night on about 2 hours of crying-baby-interrupted, upright-seated airplane sleep, I STILL knocked out my toughest row since I started tracking the difficulty index of my rows on July 1 and burned another 455 calories. Bring on the goat cheese and fig pizza tonight. I’ve earned it. 😅

Hey everybody, the moment has come to reveal … 🥁 The Week 16 (August 17-23) Row Recap:Last week, I rowed far enough to h...
24/08/2026

Hey everybody, the moment has come to reveal … 🥁

The Week 16 (August 17-23) Row Recap:

Last week, I rowed far enough to have done a round-trip crossing of the Catalina Channel + more than 7 more miles! (The Catalina Crossing is a famous 20.2-mile swim between Catalina Island and Palos Verde in California.) That represents an almost 10-km increase over Week 15’s distance: ⬆️15%.

I also outpaced a typical manatee and on Sunday, I nearly doubled its average pace. Take that, sea cow! 😂

PS — If you’ve been following things, you’ll know that since Thursday, my Merach rowing app has had a timing/pacing bug that increased my pace by about 60%. As a stop-gap patch until Merach fixes things, Claude (family name, Anthropic) has created a glitch correction patch to account for the overestimation and bring my stats back to a normal level for my weekly reports.

I’m not quite sure what happened, but between yesterday and this morning, the Merach rowing app was updated and, as of t...
20/08/2026

I’m not quite sure what happened, but between yesterday and this morning, the Merach rowing app was updated and, as of today, I’m suddenly rowing 60% faster.

| Metric | 8/19 row | 8/20 row |
| Time | 59:26 | 37:04 |
| Avg Speed | 10.10 km/h | 16.20 km/h |
| Split | 2:58/500m | 1:51/500m |
| SPM | 33.67 | 33.60 |
| Avg HR | 133 bpm | 130 bpm |
| METs | 6.9 | 7.0 |
| Active Energy | 351 kcal | 222 kcal |

This is clearly a glitch in the app or the interface between the rower and the app, so I’ve flagged it for their tech team. Hopefully, I’ll get a response and a solution because, otherwise, their stats will be completely useless. 😒

As promised, dear fans (if I can call you that), here’s my first ever weekly report for Week 15 of rowing (August 10-16)...
17/08/2026

As promised, dear fans (if I can call you that), here’s my first ever weekly report for Week 15 of rowing (August 10-16), finally replacing all those daily reports with something a little simpler.

Last week, it appears I rowed far enough to have done a round-trip crossing of the English Channel at the Strait of Dover if I’d actually been on the water, plus I found out that my average speed was faster than the top underwater swimming speed of a sea otter! 🦦 😂

Here you go …

13/08/2026

I’ve got the impression that I’m sharing too many updates now that I’m doing daily rowing so, starting today, there will be no more daily rowing reports. Instead, I plan to do weekly reports, perhaps on Mondays for the prior week. Stay tuned …

Rowing Day 80 (Week 15) …Back to New York City for another one of my favorites: View of the East River. Because it is a ...
12/08/2026

Rowing Day 80 (Week 15) …

Back to New York City for another one of my favorites: View of the East River. Because it is a relatively short row (by my current standards), I decided to increase the intensity by adjusting resistance at each kilometer mark, going from 10 to 11 to 12 to 13 to 12 to 11 to 10.

🚣🏻‍♀️ View of the East River 🍎

Check out the view of the Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges in the first image below.

⏰ Total Time: 41:41
🛣️ Total Distance: 7.01 km (4.36 mi)
💨 Average speed: 10.09 km/h (6.27 mph)
💨 Split time (min/500m): 2:58
💨 Split speed: 2.80 m/s
🥁 Average strokes per minute: 34 spm
(inexact; the 3D rows longer give you precise spm data)
💪 Resistance: average 11.29/16
• 0-1 km: 10
• 1-2 km: 11
• 2-3 km: 12
• 3-4 km: 13
• 4-5 km: 12
• 5-6 km: 11
• 6-7 km: 10
🚂 METs: 6.6
🔥 Calories Burned (from Apple): 235

Keeping pace, improving form, rowing better …

🚣🏻‍♀️ 💪

Rowing Day 79 (Week 15) …Back to one of my mainstays: London. I’ve done this row eleven times now and I always like it. ...
11/08/2026

Rowing Day 79 (Week 15) …

Back to one of my mainstays: London. I’ve done this row eleven times now and I always like it. I guess I’m more of an Anglophile than I admit. But it is complicated. 😅

🚣🏻‍♀️ Rowing on the Thames XI 💪

Check out the view of the Tower Bridge in the first image below.

⏰ Total Time: 59:18
🛣️ Total Distance: 10.01 km (6.22 mi)
💨 Average speed: 10.13 km/h (6.29 mph)
💨 Split time (min/500m): 2:58
💨 Split speed: 2.80 m/s
🥁 Average strokes per minute: 34 spm
(inexact; the 3D rows longer give you precise spm data)
💪 Resistance: 10/16 ↔️
🚂 METs: 6.6
🔥 Calories Burned (from Apple): 338

Keeping pace, improving form, rowing better …

🚣🏻‍♀️ 💪

Rowing Day 78 (Start of Week 15) …After a good night’s sleep to help get over my jet lag, I returned to “Teddy’s Rowing ...
10/08/2026

Rowing Day 78 (Start of Week 15) …

After a good night’s sleep to help get over my jet lag, I returned to “Teddy’s Rowing Studio West” this morning to kick and catch another good row, and since Merach has now dispensed with its 15-use maximum of 3D courses as of this month, I decided to do a 3D row along the Lake Michigan coast in Chicago. (It was my third time on this course.)

🚣🏻‍♀️ Chicago Beach Rowing III 💪

⏰ Total Time: 71:07 (1:11:07)
🛣️ Total Distance: 12.01 km (7.46 mi)
💨 Average speed: 10.13 km/h (6.30 mph)
💨 Split time (min/500m): 2:58
💨 Split speed: 2.80 m/s
🥁 Average strokes per minute: 34 spm
(inexact; the 3D rows longer give you precise spm data)
💪 Resistance: 10/16 ↔️
🚂 METs: 6.6
🔥 Calories Burned (from Apple): 406

PS — The dip in my rowing pace charts was when I stopped for a second to readjust the view on my screen to a larger view.

Keeping pace, improving form, rowing better …

🚣🏻‍♀️ 💪

Rowing Day 77 (End of Week 14) …After my mammoth travel day yesterday, I reached my final destination today and … … unp...
10/08/2026

Rowing Day 77 (End of Week 14) …

After my mammoth travel day yesterday, I reached my final destination today and … … unpacked my second at-home rower to open up “Teddy’s Rowing Studio West.” Despite being beat and jet lagged, I had to get in a row today because I simply couldn’t skip two days in a row.

My pace was a bit more erratic than usual, which I’ll chalk up to being tired and using a new rower for the first time, but I did end up setting a new personal record for the best 500-m split time of 2:52.

🚣🏻‍♀️ 10-km Rower’s Distance 💪

⏰ Total Time: 59:06
🛣️ Total Distance: 10 km (6.21 mi)
💨 Average speed: 10.15 km/h (6.31 mph)
💨 Split time (min/500m): 2:58
💨 Split speed: 2.80 m/s
🥁 Average strokes per minute: 33.82 spm
💪 Resistance: 10/16 ↔️
🚂 METs: 6.4
🔥 Calories Burned (from Apple): 318

Keeping pace, improving form, rowing better …

🚣🏻‍♀️ 💪

Rowing Day 76 (Week 14) …So, I’m leaving today for Paris to hop on a plane tomorrow to the US and since my train was so ...
07/08/2026

Rowing Day 76 (Week 14) …

So, I’m leaving today for Paris to hop on a plane tomorrow to the US and since my train was so early, I had to get up at 4am so I could squeeze him a little rowing session. I felt a bit like a slacker for only doing 30 minutes, but … time constraints.

I won’t be able to row tomorrow because of my travel, but I plan to get in a nice row on Sunday evening to make up for my slacking. 😅

🚣🏻‍♀️ 30-minute Rower’s Timed Training 💪

⏰ Total Time: 30:06
🛣️ Total Distance: 5.05 (6.14 mi)
💨 Average speed: 10.07 km/h (6.25 mph)
💨 Split time (min/500m): 2:59
💨 Split speed: 2.80 m/s
🥁 Average strokes per minute: 33.52 spm
💪 Resistance: 10/16 ↔️
🚂 METs: 6.5
🔥 Calories Burned (from Apple): 165

Keeping pace, improving form, rowing better …

🚣🏻‍♀️ 💪

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